It certainly stinks of something like that. Trump wouldn’t have known where it is on the map before Christmas.
I wonder if he understands the map projection that makes it look a lot bigger than it actually is?
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It’s surely no coincidence that one of his first targets is Denmark, which is basically the poster child for Social Democracy, with its high taxes, strong welfare state, liberal values, it’s everything that his movement hates.
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Yeah, i guess i was wondering if there was actually anything deeper than the obvious. And to be clear, I’m pretty sure Trump didnt dream this stuff up on his own.
Which to me is the really scary bit. He’s an orange front
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Yeah, there are a bunch of shady Heritage Foundation/Project2025 types in the background whispering talking points in his ear.
Limie can tell us the names.
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Trump has a very apelike brain where he reacts he doesnt plot. These reactions are likely to just be the result of having been present during a conversation about either of these issues and dont need there to be any nefarious plan in the background that he is initiating.
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But Project 2025 is a reality, isn’t it? If their website is anything to go by, they must be whispering a lot of things in his ear. They are his paymasters, aren’t they?
One of the huge successes of the Danish economy has been Novo Nordisk, a pharmaceutical company. They make semaglutide, which is a weight loss drug that is becoming very common in America, under brands like Wegovy or Ozempic.
Denmark needs to tell America to piss off with the talk about Greenland, or we will stop the supply of semaglutide, you fat bastards 
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Which Trump is reported to be on and hates having it suggested
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I’d love Denmark to taunt him with that. That would teach him.
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So it doesn’t even fucking work, then?
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The dipshit refused to rule out the use of military force to secure Panama and Greenland. I think and hope that he’s full of shit, both figurately and literally, but you never know what’s going on in his head. It’s not as if there’s anyone in his administration or elsewhere that will stop him and as absurd as it’d be for the US to launch a full-scale invasion in order to grab land for the first time since the 19th century, these aren’t normal times.
Plus, he’s got Putin’s example from the other side of the pond. After all, if Putin can, why shouldn’t he?
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Apes worldwide are up in arms at this loathsome insult to their kind!
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Pardon me @Magnus but at least Putin is doing it to a regional opponent.
Trump would be doing it to a staunch ally! And it’s not even contiguous land!
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@SBYM agrees
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Greenland, Panama, Canada; all regional geographically for the US. And that’s usually how territorial expansion works.
But yes, it’s insane and Americans who voted this daemon in, can go fuck themselves with a polearm. They are much more guilty than Germans who voted for NSDAP in 1933 when socioeconomic and sociopolitical background is taken into consideration.
But Denmark and Canda relies on US military strenght for defence, so it’s easy to attack them both politically, economically and militarily. Fascists go for weaker states after all. That’s the point with imperial expansion after all. To conquer, and then you attack someone weaker and take their land.
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The ape analogy frightens me. Reminds me that since the time of apes, we have always looked toward silverbacks and strong me. Democracy remains an experiment.
It’s like this forum looking toward @cynicaloldgit and @Flobs for guidance.
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@Magnus as a board game player, you of all people should know that in Risk you can take Kamchatka from Alaska.
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Not related to the previous, but this is a fitting symbol of the state of that country:
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You need to look at the before pictures…
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